A friend indeed April 5, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent How fortunate we are to find strength and support in our friends – and offer them our love and support in return. We can be sure that those connections are no accident.
Chrism Mass brings together Catholics for oils, affirmation of priesthood April 4, 2023By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments More than 1,000 joined the celebration – including more than 140 priests, 70 deacons and 60 seminarians and candidates for the permanent diaconate.
Pope Francis and the Grieving Mother April 3, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window That exchange with those grieving parents has had a deep impact on my Holy Week. The way the pope holds the mother and reaches out to the father shows such compassion and love. The way he pauses to pray with them as if they are the only people in the world is such a beautiful gift.
Holy Land patriarchs in Easter message place ‘ultimate hope only God’ amid increasing attacks on Christian sites April 3, 2023By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Lent, News, World News Just as early Christians were sustained by the words of St. Peter describing Jesus’ resurrection as offering a “new birth into a living hope,” so too should the Christians of the Holy Land today be encouraged and empowered by this knowledge as they face tumultuous times, when their own faith continues to be tested, said the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in their March 31 Easter message.
Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants April 3, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Lent, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said.
On the brink April 3, 2023By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Easter, Feature, Lent The redemptive act of Christ, done in obedience to the Father’s saving will, embraced the full range our triumphs, tragedies and sins.
Fullerton Passion Walk a ‘deeply moving’ experience March 30, 2023By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News The “Passion Walk,” a series of 18 near-life-size dimensional sets depicting the final days in the life of Jesus, is not unlike what one might see at a theater production.
Life in Christ March 30, 2023By Father Joseph Breighner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Wit & Wisdom Like Jesus, we don’t have to look for approval, control or safety outside ourselves.
A miracle at a Sunday Mass in Connecticut March 28, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window The fact that the hosts have become Jesus’ body through the consecration is its own miracle. This possible multiplication of the hosts feels like a miracle on top of a miracle—and it fills me with joy.
Pre-Vatican II Mass was formed by ‘clericalization,’ says papal preacher March 24, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Clericalization led to the separation of the clergy from the faithful in the church’s liturgy celebrated before the Second Vatican Council, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household.
An invitation from God March 23, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window Every year as the Feast of the Annunciation approaches, I think of how our Blessed Mother received the news that she would be the mother of Jesus.
Fully entering into the Triduum March 23, 2023By Bishop Donald J. Hying OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Lent God leaves the safety and glory of heaven, in a certain sense, and embraces the limitations of our human condition, coming to know in the flesh both the glory and tragedy of our nature without ever having sinned.
